For years, carbon fiber bicycles have been mainly crafted by hand: carbon fiber layup and all that. However, some folks have asked themselves: Can we use robots to craft carbon fiber dreams? The ...

If there's one fascinating fact about spiders that everyone knows, it's that their silken webs are deceptively strong. It can have a tensile strength of up to around 1000 megapascals, which can be ...

Carbon nanostructures could become easier to design and synthesize thanks to a machine learning method that predicts how they grow on metal surfaces. The new approach will make it easier to exploit ...

E-bikes are great and all, but it can be challenging to damn near impossible to find a budget machine designed to go the distance and performs like a competitive two-wheeler. Well, Ride1Up has just ...

Carbon fiber is amazingly light and strong, which makes it ideal for automotive applications, but it is also amazingly expensive, which means that it's only seen in exotic machines like the McLaren ...

In the span of a decade, direct air capture technology that draws CO 2 out of the atmosphere has gone from wildly expensive to somewhat expensive. Companies like Microsoft, which set a target to ...